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The Essential Mario Lanza

Compilation includes all Lanza’s popular hits including ‘Be My Love’ and ‘Because You’re Mine’ plus opera arias he sang in The Great Caruso and all his most beloved Italian songs.

Mario Lanza possessed probably the most beloved and enduring tenor voice in the history of recorded music. Lanza could have been one of the greatest opera singers of his time, but he chose to focus his career instead on a series of hugely popular MGM films and in concerts and chart-topping recordings. He became one of the great singing stars of the 1950s, and his signature hit was the soaring ‘Be My Love’. Lanza died before he was 40, but he left a rich, vibrant legacy of recordings, everything from the popular opera areas to the popular hits of his time